NPR names two new board members

NPR welcomes the election of Milena Alberti-Perez and Margaret Low to the NPR Board of Administrators.

Milena Alberti-Perez was elected by the Board by unanimous written consent on April 17, 2023 to function an NPR Public Director for a time period expiring in November 2025. She was seated on Might third.

Margaret Low, CEO of WBUR Boston was elected by the Board at its final quarterly assembly on April 12, 2023 to function a Member Director for a time period expiring in November 2025. She was additionally seated on Might third.

Milena Alberti-Perez is a seasoned monetary, media and expertise govt with over 20 years of expertise in ebook publishing and digital corporations. She has led and mentored groups of greater than 200 individuals throughout the total spectrum of monetary evaluation and reporting, together with the biggest merger in ebook publishing historical past, and the mixing of these corporations.

Ms. Alberti-Perez spent most of her profession at Penguin Random Home and presently serves on 2 non-profit boards and three company boards. Ms. Alberti-Perez was most not too long ago the Chief Monetary Officer of Getty Photographs, Inc. (NYSE: GETY), the world’s main visible content material firm, the place she participated in over 60 investor shows to take the corporate public.

Ms. Alberti-Perez has intensive expertise in company and non-profit boards. She is an unbiased director at Digimarc Company (Nasdaq: DMRC), the place she serves because the Chair of its Audit Committee and is a member of its Compensation Committee. She serves on two personal firm boards in audiobook publishing and digital library distribution, RBmedia and Overdrive, each owned by KKR. She additionally sits on two non-profit boards, Jumpstart and the Wild Fowl Fund.

Her educational background features a Bachelor of Arts diploma cum laude from The College of Pennsylvania, with Distinction in Economics and minors in Math and Latin American Research. She acquired her Masters diploma in Enterprise Administration, with Distinction, from the Harvard Enterprise College.

Margaret Low is the chief govt officer of WBUR in Boston.

Earlier than becoming a member of WBUR in January 2020, Low was president of AtlanticLIVE, The Atlantic’s occasions division, which throughout her tenure produced greater than 100 conferences a yr throughout the nation.

Previous to The Atlantic, Low loved a storied profession at NPR, spanning a long time. She first walked by means of the doorways as an in a single day manufacturing assistant on Morning Version and rose by means of the ranks to develop into senior vice chairman for information — NPR’s high editorial job.

Throughout her tenure, NPR earned a few of the most prestigious honors in journalism, together with a number of Peabody Awards, duPont-Columbia Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Low serves on the board of the Larger Boston Chamber of Commerce. She is vice chair of the board of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a board member of Wallace Home Middle for Journalists on the College of Michigan, dwelling to the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowships. In 2017, she was the graduation speaker for the College of Communications at her alma mater, the College of Michigan, the place she earned a Bachelor’s Diploma in English Language and Literature. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.